I picked up a full set of black leather Forester seats from an 04 XT. My Forester is an 06 base model. 

Both seats have built in airbags. The leather ones are heated, but not powered. The 06 harness has 3 connectors. 2 of the plugs don't match up to the seat harness from the 04 seats. And the seats only have 2 plugs. 

I want to get the heated seat functionality working, and I also have an "airbag" light on. Which I'm guessing it means that the airbags won't go off when they should. 

Pics of the connectors: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-I1mMFkCaZH810vcGYwpDruJiRQnVTNW

I am willing to mod the harnesses or whatever, but I don't know what pins go to what. If anyone has diagrams and could share them, that would be great. 

you should be able to find the diagrams you need here: http://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/Subaru/

I thoroughly looked through the manuals. I'm not sure if they are wrong or incomplete, but the plugs on my 06 should be the same as the 04 seats, according to the documents. However, in real life, they aren't. 

I'm really confused. Nothing looks altered or modified. Every other Subaru that I've swapped seats on were plug and play. 

might go post on Subaruforester.org. But the older stuff doesn't get much attention anymore.

 

As noted the '04 has heated, airbag and seat belt (?) plugs.

The '06 has Airbag and seat belt only....?

 

Did you pull up the carpet on your '06 to check for 'unused connectors' ? The XT (and XS) went to powered front seats in '05...FWIW.  

Might google seat pics or check ebay for pics of seat connectors to see what an '06 XT seat looks like?

Edited August 29, 20196 yr by wtdash